Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Wow!!  Big improvement for me.  As I posted earlier, my firewire reliability was only around 60% (at best).  Since running these commands I'm batting 100% so far.  It's only been a day, but I've tested it quite a bit and haven't had any "false starts" from either live tv or recordings from firewire.  I also changed from point-to-point to broadcast, and changed the speed from 400 mbps to 100 mbps as suggested.  I doubt these were the reason for the change since I've played with those settings quite a bit before with no improvement in reliability. 

Question:  since I have no idea what these plugctl commands really do, I'm wondering if they need to be re-run anytime the machine is rebooted...? 

Thanks Curtis for the great find! I know there's quite a few other Firewire users who have the same reliability problems, so I hope they give this a try. 

On 10/14/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

OK, I think I've found something that helps with this firewire stuff.
See this message:

http://www.netzwerk-aktiv.com/pub/doc/newsletters/linux1394-user/html/
2344.html

I followed the advice in the first paragraph and typed:

plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].channel=63
plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1

Then I set the firewire connection to broadcast, 100Mbps in mythtv-
setup.

Now, the test-mpeg2 command works EVERY time (don't use the -r 1
argument, just test-mpeg2). Also, mythtv "Watch TV" command works
EVERY time where before it worked maybe 50% of the time or hung.

I have yet to see if it helps with my recordings being cut short but
I'll let the list know how it goes.

If anyone else benefits from this, please post your results.

Thanks

Curtis



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